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Balloon boy story is right out of Edgar Allan Poe
Jacket CopyThe Balloon Boy story may have been a hoax, but it if was, the Heene family is in good company. No less than Edgar Allan Poe had an entirely fictional account of a balloon voyage published in 1844 in the...... -
Balloon Boy alive and safe
Comments BlogFor a few hours this afternoon, the nation turned its focus to an unlikely victim -- Balloon Boy. A 6-year-old boy named Falcon Heene was believed to have crawled into a homemade balloon modeled after a UFO in Denver and...... -
Cable news networks riveted by 'balloon boy' [updated]
Show TrackerForget health care or Afghanistan. For about two hours today, the cable news networks devoted nonstop coverage to tracking the progress of a silver balloon floating across the fields of northern Colorado. Initial reports that a 6-year-old boy was inside..... -
ABC's "Wife Swap" family's balloon is subject of airborne drama
Show TrackerThe experimental balloon that floated over eastern Colorado for more than two hours before landing in a field about 12:45 p.m. PDT reportedly did not contain the 6-year-old boy who was believed to have climbed aboard the craft earlier today....... -
Balloon boy Falcon Heene heard parents call but stayed hidden: 'We did this for the show'
The Dish RagWhat do you think of balloon boy's admission that all this furor was simply PR for the family's show? Ooops. Out of the mouths of babes. Do you believe Falcon Heene's parent's rationalization that their son was hiding because he...... -
What if the Balloon Boy spectacle wasn't a hoax? [Updated]
Show TrackerFor a television viewer, the most frightening moment of the whole â??balloon boyâ?? story came not when authorities discovered that Falcon Heene wasnâ??t in the weather balloon they had been chasing all over Colorado, the implication being that... -
The Morning Fix: Big weekend ahead! 'Balloon boy' parents popped. Iger's pay cut and gym bill. 'Idol' musings.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before leaving out the cookies and milk for any late-night visitors. Goodbye and good riddance. As 2009 putters to an end, it is clearly a year the media industry would like to forget. Unfortunately, 2010 may not...... -
'We did it for the show,' balloon boy explains, so does that mean it was a hoax?
Comments BlogBalloon boy explains that he 'did it for the show' when he hid in the attic while authorities thought he was floating above Colorado... -
The balloon boy: A reality show on life behind bars?
Opinion L.A.Who needs reality shows when we have fiction parading as reality? Or is it the other way around? First there was the media's breathless, moment-by-moment coverage of the silver balloon floating above the Colorado landscape, supposedly with a 6-year-old... -
In today's pages: Perotistas, marijuana and the balloon boy
Opinion L.A.Columnist Jonah Goldberg foresees clouds ahead for the Democrats -- in fact, a coming storm so severe that it could end Democratic control of Congress. It's building from the Tea Party movement, which Goldberg sees as an heir to the Ross Perot third-party... -
Next: "Balloon Manufacturers Assn., UFO group denounce Heenes"
Opinion L.A.You know you're pariahs when even the ACLU wants nothing to do with you. In my in-box this morning was this release: A number of recent news reports have included an erroneous assertion by Larimer County (Colo.) Sheriff Jim Alderden that the American... -
Balloon Boy, the gift that won't stop giving (although we'd all really like it to)
Brand XWow did this story get even weirder (as if that were possible). Turns out the whole hoax was a ruse, not merely for Richard Heene to become more famous -- as we all know, he got that particular wish in spades but probably not in the manner he intended --...
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